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Re:Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:55PM (#28788985)
Surprisingly people easily accept the media's foreign coverage without doubt even if they are skeptical about their domestic coverage.
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern we... on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:14PM (#28559530)
Try this https://wiby.me/

Clicking 'Surprise me' gave me an interesting article from 1994 http://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bucket.html

Re:Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolis... on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:33AM (#28548412)
Well, SpaceX is in the U.S.
Re:China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than thre... on Monday August 30, 2021 @02:11PM (#28358915)
The policy is targeting ONLINE games. Companies like Tencent will simply double down shipping those shitty games with loot boxes and microtransactions oversea to your kids. Meanwhile in China offline singleplayer games may see a boom.
Re:A critique of Safari's influence on the web on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:26PM (#28019529)
100% spot on.
Re:Taiwan bans recruitment for jobs in China on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:59PM (#26999238)
This is meaningless. Taiwanese can still access job posting sites or be contacted by recruiters from Mainland China. There's no language barrier and they can simply buy a flight ticket to Shanghai and start working wherever they want with full Chinese citizenship.

The brain drain is serious and I don't see how it can be solved unless Taiwan can offer competitive salaries against first-tier cities in the mainland, 10% of Taiwanese population is now living and working in the mainland.

Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps on Monday June 29, 2020 @08:00PM (#23684967)
Surprisingly HNers are embracing the concept of cyber sovereignty that China and Russia are pushing.
Re:Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity ... on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:46PM (#23462445)
I have done more research about the 6 hospitals, my initial claim of "6 small hospitals" is wrong, they at least include the biggest two, Wuhan Union and Tongji.

The claim "far away from the wet market" still holds, these hospitals are not in the Jiangan District, and 5 of them are on the other side of the Yangtze River.

Re:Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity ... on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:02PM (#23462184)
I must be a dedicated one since I actually read the paper, jeez.
Re:Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity ... on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:02PM (#23461736)
Hospitals are obligated to report to the CDC once they discover pneumonia caused by an unknown virus that can transmit from human to human. SARS or COVID is just a name scientists gave to the sequenced virus.
Re:Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity ... on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:32PM (#23461536)
Please stop spreading false information.

Baidu search index for SARS: https://imgur.com/a/3Sca2v8 .

The uptick started at mid-Dec. There is a tiny bump in early October, however, if you hover over it, the bump shows posts about comparing economic activity to the 2003 SARS period, not related to the disease.

Re:Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity ... on Monday June 08, 2020 @06:17PM (#23461426)
A few issues with the methodology.

- only 6 small hospitals were included, and far away from the wet market

- Baidu Search Index doesn't match what they claim https://imgur.com/a/UkcUZou

- No test for statistical significance, really?

COVID-like mysterious pneumonia was not that hard to detect, the hospital would be alerted once doctors and nurses got infected.

Re:Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’ on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:55PM (#23432381)
In terms of geopolitics this is a good move, a superpower should have its own tech infrastructure.
Re:Show HN: I built a cron job scheduler on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:26PM (#23341368)
> It's built for developers who don't like managing servers and working with cron jobs.

I had a hard time understanding the target market. Are they referring to frontend developers who are forced to do backend work?

Re:Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:39AM (#23333453)
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/hon...

Trading volume with US is just a fraction, and US actually has a surplus. It's unlikely for US to change the status quo in HK which would hurt US companies more.

> Most of the imports are purchased by China because it cannot buy them legally and has to use HK's "autonomous" status to import.

This is simply groundless speculation without concrete data.

Re:Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown f... on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:35PM (#23326835)
If you don't need to render your notes as a graph, try VSNote out, or simply write markdown-based notes in your favorite editor and store them in your dropbox.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=patrickl...

Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-affiliated ... on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:23AM (#23320721)
> more transparent

TBH no matter how transparent China is you won't trust it until it turns out to be what you believe.

> actively prevented Taiwan from joining the WHO

Every WHO member can formally invite Taiwan and cast a vote, why didn't any five-eyes nation do that?

> does not do anything for free

I agree. It's simply ruthless geopolitics no matter how angelic a country pretends to be.

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